Hesse: Sprint's Future Includes Clearwire and WiMax

Sprint CEO Dan Hesse, speaking at the Deutsche Bank AG Media & Telecom Conference today, said that every option it has mapped for its future includes WiMax and partner Clearwire. Hesse thinks that Sprint should do more network sharing with Clearwire, though he didn't specify how. The two companies are currently hashing out the wholesale networking agreement between them, but have yet to come to terms. Sources cited by Bloomberg on March 8 believe that T-Mobile's parent company, Deutsche Telekom, is in talks to sell or merge T-Mobile USA with Sprint and pursue a different course for the future of their businesses. Hesse declined to comment on that report.

WiMax sucks! I've never experienced any better speeds than 3G with WiMax, it can't penetrate buildings very well, it chews up your battery, and if you get a 4G phone they strap on an extra $10 charge for this crappy excuse for high speed data! This is most defiantly Mr. Hesse's fist misstep in awhile.I'm just pissed that I'm locked into a contract for my Mi-Fi and live in a crappy WiMax coverage Area when the other carriers have better high speed coverage.

I am a happy user of sprints WiMax. I used to have not so great service in my building. Then when sprint fired up 4g my 3g service got a huge boost. I am using my evo right now as my main ISP. I just did a speed test and this is my result.